Vga bios?

Humm OK, the main point in asking the question was coming from the stand
point that it is easy to obtain a vga rom. Most standard bios images are
just a zip file. There are tools on the web that allow one to unzip a bios
rom file and grab the rom for the graphics controller. This was an idea that
I was toying around with that I think could help the whole linuxbios group
of people. I am not at that part yet. Both my board do not boot linux bios
yet. The Pentium M board is not supported, yet. The P3 board has the super
IO in the southbridge makeing life harder. When I get one of these board
booting linuxbios then I will be willing to try to get VGA bios running.
-Adam Talbot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Smith" <smithbone69 at yahoo.com>
To: "Adam Talbot" <talbotx at comcast.net>; <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: Vga bios?
>> --- Adam Talbot <talbotx at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > If i have the rom image for the graphics card rom,
> > can I load that into linuxbios?
>> Maybe.
>> There are 2 methods of doing VGA bios with LB. Both
> of these methods are for v1. I can't speak for v2
> since I haven't made the switch yet.
>> Method one is to enable the real mode IDT stuff that
> sets up a 16 bit enviroment and jumps into the
> vgabios. I've attempted this but never took it far
> enough to actually make it work. Search the archives
> for 'vgabios' or 'vga bios' and you should find lots
> of posts describing what to set.
>> The second option and the one that I'm most familiar
> with is using ADLO. ADLO is a glue layer to the BIOS
> used int the bochs project which attempts to set up a
> legacy BIOS enviroment.
>> Using ADLO and Bochs, I've made LILO and several
> vgabios's work under LinuxBios with our Intel 440bx
> chipset.
>> What chipset are you using?
>> --
> Richard A Smith
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